Quotes by Albert Einstein
(1879 - 1955)

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Americans	Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
Common Sense	Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Conscience	Never do anything against conscience, even if the state demands it.
Creativity	The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
Education	Education is that which remains, if one has forgotten everything one learned in school.
Facts	If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. - ((Attributed))
Fashion	Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
Future	I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
God	Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish
God	Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds - (German-born American physicist)
Humanity	It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.
Imagination	Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Insanity	Insanity is endlessly repeating the same process and hoping for a different result. - (German-American physicist)
Jews	If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.
Math	As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Mathematics	The numerator goes on the top!
Mediocrity	Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Miracles	There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as if everything is.
Misc.	If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
Mysteries	The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science.
Nationalism	Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
Peace	The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Problem solving	The significant problems we face today cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.
Questioning	The important thing is not to stop questioning.
Reading	Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
Relativity	Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity.
Science	Since the mathematicians invaded the theory of relativity, I do not understand it myself anymore.
Science	The whole of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking.
Science & religion	Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. - (physicist)
Stupidity	Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Stupidity	The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. - (German-born American physicist)
Taxes	The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
Truth	If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
War	You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.
War	I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
War	If I had known that the Germans would not succeed in constructing the atom bomb, I would never have lifted a finger.
War	As long as there are men, there will be wars.
wisdom	We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
World	The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

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